Ronna Pennington

Merging Dragons and Leopards Ronna Pennington

The world knows the desegregation story of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Images of armed soldiers stationed on the campus showed the nation and world both in print and televised media the turmoil associated with ending segregation in the South. But, how did it happen in your own school district? Author Ronna Ross Pennington asked herself that question and shares the documented process of desegregating another Arkansas school district in her hometown of Malvern.